In the end, that’s what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
PEMA CHODRONWhatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don’t lose your sense of perspective.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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